Cattle-horn weight



Oct. 30, 1923. 1,4723% A. A. COURTNEY CATTLE HORN WEIGHT Filed Sept. 7, 1922 Patented @et 39, 1923.

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ARNOLD A. COURTNEY, OF OE'TUMWA, IOWA.

CATTLE-HORN WEIGHT.

Application filed September 7, 1922. Serial No. 586,719.

To allwhom z'tmay concern: or the horn. The other end of the weight Be it known that LARNoLo A. CoURrNnr, reduced in thickness and provided with a citizen of the United States, residing at longitudinally extending slots 4 which ar Ottumwa, in the county of Wapello and here shown arranged diametricallyopposite,

5 State of Iowa, have invented a new and usealthough not necessarily so. This slotting 5U t'ul CattleHorn Weight, of which the itolof the weight provides spring clampinglowing is a specification. fingers 5 which assist in securing the weight This invention relates to cattle horn to the horn. A set screw 3 extends trans weights and the object thereof is to provide versely through the weight and is designed 1G a weight of this character so constructed to engage the horn to assist the lingers in that when properly applied is ever-tight and holding it securely connected to avoid all all danger 0i losing the weights avoided. possibility ot' the weight being lost.

Another object is to so construct a dein the use oi. this device the weight is Vice of this character that it will have a placed on the animals horn with the set 1 spring engagement with the animals horn screw 3 located in the same direction in in addition to the set screw usually emwhich it is desired to train the horn. The ployed. screw is then turned about three sixlVith the foregoing and other objects in teenth oi an inch into the horn and the View which will appear as the description call is then left in a burn or small lot 20 proceeds, the inventionresides in the conifor about twenty-four hours when the screw bination and arrangement 032 parts and in H flg' fi igh ened Af er the second tight the details of construction hereinafter do ening the animal may be turned out to scribed and claimed, it being understood P S nc 1111 danger of the weight so that, within the scope of what is claimed, ed being lost is minimized.

changes in the precise embodiment of the I clrliimi invention shown can be made without do. i. A horn weight for cattle havingalongiparting from the spirit of the invention tuiiinally extending bore and a slot opening in the accompanying drawings: tt 116 end thereof.

jij 1 represents ti i f 1 horn weight for cattleliavinga longithe weight constituting this invention shown fl-Y cfltendlng bore 2111i]- Slotttd 2 li d Clit at one end to form spring grip-- Fig. is a horizontal s ction of the 1311 P ht; d 1 .a horn weight for cattle having a longi- S is a longitudinal section thereof. tudinally extending bore, the walls thereof 11 th mnbgdiment ill t t d th w i ht tapering in thickness toward one end. said i wh ch constitutes this invention is shown tapering end being provided with a pluralit -I applied to cows horn H and is constructed 0'? longitudinally ending slots to form of metal having sutficient weight to exert a spr ng ripping fingers. bending tendency on the horn to which it in testimony that I claim the foregoing as m is applied. n v own. i. have hereto atlixed my signature This weight 1 has a bore 2 extending in the presence of two witnesses. longitudinally therethrough which tapers riR-NOLD A. COURTNEY. toward one end, the end having the small Witnesses: portion of the bore therein being thicker D.A.E1\r11RY,

,5 and designed to be positioned toward the end HELEN M. EMERY. 

